THE ANNUAL ARTISTS DAY CELEBRATION AT REEL ART COLLECTIBLES

FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS, REEL ART HAS BEEN HOST TO SOME OF CHICAGO ’S FINEST ARTISTS FROM ALL AREAS OF POPULAR CULTURE.
AT A ONE-DAY EVENT, THEY MEET OUR CUSTOMERS WHO CAN PURCHASE SIGNED PRINTS. BOOKS, SKETCHBOOKS, OR ORIGINAL ART FROM
THESE EXTREMELY TALENTED FOLKS.MARCH 4, 2017 (1-4pm) DAVE DORMAN, JIM ENGEL, AARON B. MILLER,
CHRIS PEULER & CHAD SAVAGE!

DAVE DORMAN is an Eisner, Inkpot and Bram Stoker Award-winning master
painter, legendary artist and illustrator, he has worked on comic book
covers from Archie Comics (where he defined the controversial
"real-life" looks of Archie, Betty and Veronica in 2016) to Star Wars
Comics to Spider Gwynn in this past 12 months. It would be tough to
name any licensed property in sci-fi, horror or fantasy that Dorman's
paint brush hasn't graced on canvas or illustration board. His career
spans everything from Indiana Jones and G.I. Joe (including toy design)
to creature design (Predalien) to Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The
Gathering to creating his own world and dystopian series "The Wasted
Lands."

Dave is probably the first artist to compete against himself in
the Bram Stoker Awards with Alien: Tribes and his motorcycle zombie
book, "Dead Heat." He was voted the #1 Star Wars Artist by the fans and
is one of the most prolific Star Wars artists alive today (his art is
currently on clothing at major retailers). His recent Facebook Live
demo of painting garnered 3,100 viewers with no promotion. The last
week of March Dorman is launching his very first Kickstarter campaign
to fund his "Captain Nemo" triptych series, offering collectors signed
and numbered limited edition canvas pieces. The remainder of this year,
Dave will be appearing at C2E2, San Diego Comic-Con and New York
Comic-con. Watch for his blog at http://davedorman.wordpress.com/ for
updates to his appearance schedule.

JIM ENGEL is a
noted cartoonist, designer, and pop culture historian. Over a 40 year
career in the creative field, he has illustrated products or designed
toys featuring every major property from Mickey Mouse to the Muppets,
from Star Wars to the Teenage Mutant Turtles. He has drawn comic work
for DC Comics, King Features Syndicate, Fantagraphics and others, and
done hundreds of toy designs for Burger King, McDonald’s and Kellogg’s.
He is a partner in and creative head of Surge-Innovations, a Chicago
based international promotions agency, and is also the Children’s TV
Curator for Chicago’s MUSEUM OF BROADCAST COMMUNICATIONS, for which he
has produced exhibits and public events. He has appeared on radio and
television, lectured, and been interviewed in print on all of the
above. In short, he is a big kid who is glad he never really had to
grow up.

Miller’s oil and digital work has earned numerous accolades and awards.
His art was included multiple times in the fantasy art field’s
prestigious publication, Spectrum: The Best in Fantastic Art. Miller
was MileHiCon’s 2013 Artist Guest of Honor and Best Color Award Winner.
GenCon, the world’s biggest gaming convention, bestowed him with honors
two years running: 2013 Best in Show and 2010 Juror’s Choice Award.

Miller’s art has been displayed at galleries across the United States.
Notably, his work hung in the Mazza Museum in Findlay, Ohio, as part of
its annual Enchanted Brush Exhibit and been featured in J. Anthony
Kosar’s Maleficium Dark Art Exhibit in Chicago. Miller was also honored
with a solo exhibit of his masterful paintings at the Illinois State
Museum in July 2015.

Passionate about painting, especially capturing the human form, Miller
looks to great painters and illustrators of the past for inspiration,
which is evident by the rich brushstrokes and dynamic forms he brings
to life on canvas. In the tradition of great master painters and
advocacy for the advancement of other artists, Miller runs a monthly
Figurative Illustration Workshop out of Chicago, in which any artist is
welcome to paint alongside him to explore their imagination and advance
their painting or drawing skills.

CHRIS PEULER
has been drawing, painting, and daydreaming for about as long as he can
remember. Over the past several years he has been making his love of
storytelling and daydreaming into a career. Chris has worked with
various game publishers creating horror, science fiction, and fantasy
art for various intellectual properties like Star Wars®, Shadowrun®,
and Lovecraft inspired games, among several others. He lives and works
in Chicago, spending a lot of time practicing his craft around others
that inspire him. Visit his website to contact him or for more examples
of his work: http://www.ChrisPeuler.com

CHAD SAVAGE
was a dark artist from the moment his pudgy little hands were able to
set crayon to paper. He was the kid that loved Halloween better than
Christmas, rooted for Godzilla and Dracula, and really worried his
Southern Baptist parents. It was very clear early on that Chad wanted
to celebrate Halloween 365 days a year.

With a degree in illustration and graphic design and 20+ years’
experience drawing/designing for the horror genre for both print and
web, Chad got his wish. Halloween, for him, is every day. His company
Sinister Visions inc. is thriving, providing web design, print design,
illustration, sound design, font design and more for the horror,
Halloween and haunted attraction industries. Sinister Visions currently
hosts/manages close to 200 dark websites; odds are you’ve already been
to at least 10 of them.

Chad’s artwork has appeared in (and on the cover of) numerous books and
magazines and garnered awards from same. His original fonts have
appeared on books, magazines, DVDs, CDs and in movies. Besides running
genre sites like DarkChicago.com and ZombiePinups.com, he is the Art
Director and Lead Designer for Zombie Army Productions, annual
horror/haunt conventions Flashback Weekend, Halloween Extreme, the
World Horror Convention, HAuNTcon and TransWorld’s Halloween &
Attractions Show. His company Sinister Visions proudly sponsors
numerous dark genre events and projects.

Chad currently lives and works outside of Chicago (OK, in Indiana) with
his fabulous (and tolerant) wife Alex, lovely daughters and their fairy
dogmothers.
For his graphic and web design work website, visit http://www.sinistervisions.com/OCTOBER 16, 2016 (Noon-3pm)